Previously: “Dear Rachel,” I cried out (for I was on earth). I had heard her cry from a hill of Benjamin, at the moment Benjamin was born from her womb – a place of a little town of Bethlehem.
In case you missed the beginning of our M-F serial fiction which began 2 June: ATT Forward. Now continuing:
CHAPTER 35
NO INTIMACY IS NEAR IN THE FLESH AS A MOTHER CONNECTED TO HER CHILD.
FROM THE CONCEPTION OF SEED SHE LIVES EACH MOMENT WITH HER CHILD FOR ALL TIME.
I LOVE JACOB. JACOB LOVES RACHEL. WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN.
“Jacob loved Rachel so much he worked to have her as his wife for seven years, then seven years again. When he finally had earned fair release from Laban to leave his Father-In-Law’s household, Jacob had only six more years with the wife he loved so much, because she died in labor.
Lord, how sad.”
RACHEL’S LOVE IS NOT DIMINISHED BY HER DEATH.
I thought of my wife of twenty-two years who had died of cancer.
JACOB AND RACHEL WERE JOINED IN SPIRIT TWENTY YEARS AND JOINED ALSO IN THE FLESH AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS.
THE IDOLS OF LABAN’S HOUSEHOLD COULD NOT SERVE HER, YET I, THE LORD, HEARD RACHEL’S CRIES FOR THE SAKE OF HER HUSBAND, MY SERVANT, JACOB.
“Lord, You are merciful in showing love to those you love.”
Psalm 139: 13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
COME, ROGER. I WILL SHOW YOU THE LOVE OF TWO BROTHERS.
I KNEW ESAU AND I KNEW JACOB.
To be continued…
A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,
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